Category: Interviews

Interviews with newsmakers and everyday folks in Central Virginia. Some are conducted by Coy Barefoot on his WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now or Sean Tubbs of Charlottesville Community Media.

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Home Grown: Winding Road: Mark Roebuck, Sean McCord & Joncey Boggs, and Brooks Wellmon

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Home Grown welcomes you to another Sunday morning in the new woke C’Ville. First, it’s our final preview for the Six Pack Songwriter Showcase. Mark Roebuck visits the show for the first time to play a tune and talk about what it’s like to record his upcoming album. Then Leslie and David examine a new theater opportunity in town. Playwright Sean McCord (with his director Joncey Boggs) introduces us to The Charlottesville Playwrights Collective. They’re a collection of self-producing playwrights and their first season begins with McCord’s play (directed by Boggs), Moving.. Finally, Light House Studio Giving Director Brooks Wellmon returns to the show to talk about Light House’s 16th Youth Film Festival. If you ever wondered what Light House actually does, here’s your chance to find out. It’s all that plus a bag of your hosts David Vaughn Straughn and Leslie M. Scott-Jones, all on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Blokes on the Bench

Blokes on the Bench host Andy Richardson and the blokes talk about the world of soccer. This week: Three weeks in to the new season and who’s looking like early league contenders!
Also who looks like their a lost cause already!

The blokes are Andy Richardson and Alex Gomaa.

Blokes on a Bench is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday evenings at 6:00 p.m. The station is looking for volunteers.

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Wake-Up Call: The Legal Aid Justice Center

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Adeola Ogunkeyede, Legal Director of the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Program at the Legal Aid Justice Center and Kim Rolla, an attorney for the program. More people have been arrested in Durham, NC for taking down a Confederate statue than have been arrested for the beating of Deandre Harris in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017 and those attackers were photographed and videotaped. In fact no one has so far been arrested. Why is justice failing this community? Find out in this interesting podcast.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Home Grown: New and Improved: Susan Munson & Debra Guy, Kaila Reid, and Sian Richards & Kailey McLane Burke

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Home Grown makes it happen again. This week we continue our countdown to the Six Pack Songwriter Showcase with a two-shot! Debra Guy and Susan Munson. We then talk to visual artist Kailey Reid about her first show Dreamscape at Maya Restaurant. It’s a little bit Gothic, a little bit Manga, and a lot of fun. Finally, PEP – The Performers Exchange Project return to the show to talk about their latest incarnation of their work The Convolution of Pip and Twig. It’s had a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; it’s got a new set; and it’s playing for most of September at Live Arts Theatre. Continuing to bring you the artists and art that’s all around you, this is Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: A Tale of Two Charlottesvilles & Southern Heritage vs. Southern History

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Tanesha Hudson, Charlottesville native and activist, on her city’s recent racist violence fitting into a long oppressive pattern; and Grace Elizabeth Hale Ph.D., Prof. of History and American Studies & noted author, on understanding the South’s deep divide in Black and White.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Wake-Up Call: Uranium Mining and Solar Energy in Virginia

Will Cleveland

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Southern Environmental Law Center attorney Will Cleveland about solar energy and uranium mining in Virginia.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Home Grown: Music/Image/Words: Jason Burke, Deborah McLeod, Blake Hurt, and Amanda Korman

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

It’s a packed Home Grown this week.We start our countdown to the Six Pack Songwriter Showcase with our man Jason Burke. We then talk to Deborah McLeod from Chroma Projects Art Laboratory. She talks Chroma plans — dodges questions on PCA :( — and brings with her Blake Hurt who expands the nature of portraiture in his current Chroma exhibit August Persons, Finally, David and Leslie speak to Amanda Korman — local writer and past WriterHouse seminar leader to talk about The 2017 WriterHouse and C-Ville Weekly Flash Fiction Contest.

It’s so much art on this week’s Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art you might have to sue for artful distress with the fine firm of Tochterman, Munson, Overman, & Burke.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Wake-Up Call: Equality and Access in Albemarle Public Schools

Dr. Pam Moran

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Sean McCord talks with Dr. Pamela Moran, Albemarle County Public Schools Superintendent; Dr. Nick Smith, head of Albemarle School’s new SEAD initiative; and Zadie Electra Lacy, a Monticello High School senior. We pause to take a moment to check in and make sure everyone is safe after the events of August 12, 2017, then discuss equity and access in the schools.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Home Grown: Morning After: Lisa Woolfork and Jenna Hochman join David and Leslie

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

It’s a very different Home Grown this week.The morning after the neo-Nazi, new US fascist, jingo nationalist, post-Confederate, white supremacist riots yesterday, your hosts David Vaughn Straughn and Leslie M. Scott-Jones join with Jenna Hochman and Professor Lisa Woolfork to tell their stories of having been on the ground yesterday. It’s not a very artistic talk, but as maybe the first media show afterwards, we had to give voice to what went down. That’s this week’s Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Wake-Up Call: Charlottesville Responds: When White Nationalists Come to Town

J. Lloyd Snook, III

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Dan Gould talks with local attorney Lloyd Snook about the first amendment and other legal implications of our how our community should respond to the August 12 invasion of “alt-right” White Nationalists. Lloyd has been posting about this questions on his blog. Joining us for part of the conversation will be David Straughn of Black Lives Matter Charlottesville.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Home Grown: Keeping Art Alive – Vibe Riot’s Jaewar and Live Arts’ Scott Dunn

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

On today’s Home Grown, Clinton and Leslie welcome back Jaewar from Vibe Riot, and they talk about breaking music genres. Next, they talk to Scott Dunn from Live Arts’ Playwrights Lab to talk about their upcoming collection of new plays, Locally Sourced. It’s musicians defying boundaries and playwrights helping each other produce all on this week’s Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 AM to 11 AM.